. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. is absolutely worthless southof Missouri and Kentucky. For several years pastTurkestan alfalfa has been the most prominent fadwith farmers. It has not yet found its place in Amer-ican agriculture, but will undoubtedly do so in thenear future, for the State experiment stations and theDepartment of Agriculture are giving it a thoroughtrial all over the country. Farme
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. is absolutely worthless southof Missouri and Kentucky. For several years pastTurkestan alfalfa has been the most prominent fadwith farmers. It has not yet found its place in Amer-ican agriculture, but will undoubtedly do so in thenear future, for the State experiment stations and theDepartment of Agriculture are giving it a thoroughtrial all over the country. Farmers will find it to their advantage to wait tillthese trials are finished. Experiments are farmers can usually avoid such expense byleaving this work to those whose business it is to con-dudt experiments. Exorbitant claims for any newcrop should be viewed with suspicion. Much uselessexpense would be saved to farmers by writing to thebetter class of agricultural journals, the experimentstations, and the National Department of Agriculturefor information concerning any new and much-adver-tised crop, for these authorities are usually in posses-sion of all the reliable information to be had concerningsuch FIG. 49—PENICILLARIA, OR PEARL MILLET 236 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATESTHE GRASS FLOWER The seed-head of the true grasses is of two generalpatterns. One is seen in the head of wheat, barley,timothy, etc. This form of seed-head is called a spike(see Fig. 50). Examination of ahead of wheat showsthat it consists of a number of meshes arranged intwo rows on opposite sides of a central stem. Thesemeshes consist of from three to five flowers each,arranged in a compadl cluster called a spikelet (). In the timothy head the spikelets are notarranged in two opposite rows, but are scattered overan enlarged continuation of the stem. A very different pattern of seed-head is found inoats, Kentucky blue-grass, and the like. The flowersof these are grouped in
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